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...monitors on the Pacific Coast, and teletyped to Washington. It was nothing that a President could formally discuss with his Allies, or reply to. But a man could talk about it. The President wanted to talk to somebody, and he immediately summoned four men: Admiral Leahy and Secretaries Byrnes. Stimson, Forrestal...
From War Secretary Stimson came a prompt, tart reply. The point system would not be revised until next year, and, moreover, the War Department did not intend to increase its present rate of discharges. Said Henry Stimson: "We shall not let any man go whose going jeopardizes the lives of the men who remain to fight." Rudderless Ship. The size of the Army had the most direct bearing on reconversion, which was the second problem roiling the domestic scene. To all intents & purposes, reconversion was stalled. In a sizzling report, the Senate Investigating Committee had called on the Office...
...Secretary Stimson merely said that the new weapon would "prove a tremendous aid" in shortening the conflict. The men in the know-the scientists racing for the secret of atomic energy, the very few military men who were aware of the race-had said that the winner would have the power to win this war and all wars. Now the U.S. had the power, and had it in combat quantities...
Principal credit for the fruitful channeling of this rich source of brainpower, announced Secretary of War Stimson, belongs to "the genius and inspiration" of slight, dark Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, 41, of the University of California and California Institute of Technology...
Visiting San Francisco, Hollywood, Tennessee Valley, Chicago, and New York, Mesbahzadeh met President Truman, Secretary Stimson, and other cabinet members, several congressmen, including Senators McKeller and Connally and Representative Clare Booth Luce. He spoke to these leading statesmen concerning Iran's contributions to the war-effort and, stating that America has definite responsibilities in the Near and Middle East, expressed the hope that in peace as in war she will continue to lend support to the small nations of the East...